Attention, space and action : studies in cognitive neuroscience
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Attention, space and action : studies in cognitive neuroscience
Oxford University Press, 1999
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"Drawn from papers reported to two linked meetings, a discussion meeting of the Royal Society on 'Brain mechanisms of selective perception and action' and a meeting at the Novartis Foundation on 'The control of attention', held in November 1997"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780198524687
Description
To generate coherent behaviour, the brain needs to attend selectively to the many objects that are present in the environment, but this poses several questions. How does the brain know which objects 'belong together'? How does the information from different senses get combined? How does this help to plan and carry out actions? The subject of attentional mechanisms has a long history in cognitive psychology, as it is the key to making sense of the visual world.
However, new developments in cognitive neuroscience, and greater understanding of how attention and action are integrated, have transformed the field. This book is the first to bring together leading researchers to discuss the convergence of experimental findings in the following areas: Visual
selective attention Attention and perceptual integration Spatial representation and attention Visual attention and action Control of attention Attention, Space, and Action provides a unique combination of perspectives that will appeal to students and researchers from psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy.
Table of Contents
- SECTION 1: VISUAL SELECTIVE ATTENTION
- SECTION 2: ATTENTION AND PERCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
- SECTION 3: SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AND ATTENTION
- SECTION 4: VISUAL ATTENTION AND ACTION
- SECTION 5: THE CONTROL OF ATTENTION
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: hbk ISBN 9780198524694
Description
Bringing together leading researchers to discuss the convergence of experimental findings, this book examines visual selective attention; attention and perceptual integration; spatial representation and attention; visual attention and action; control of attention; attention; and space and action. To generate coherent behaviour, the brain needs to attend selectively to the many objects that are present in the environment, but this poses several questions. How does the brain know which objects "belong together"? How does the information from different senses get combined? How does this help to plan and carry out actions? The subject of attentional mechanisms has a long history in cognitive psychology, as it is the key to making sense of the visual world. This book looks at how late 1990s developments in cognitive neuroscience, and greater understanding of how attention and action are integrated, have transformed the field.
Table of Contents
- Attention, space and action, Humphreys, Duncan & Treisman
- studies in cognitive neuroscience. Part 1 Visual selective attention: visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex, R. Desimone
- sensory gain control as a mechanism of selective attention, Hillyard, Vogel & Luck
- a computational theory of visual attention, C. Bundesen
- how do we select perceptions and actions?, Rees & Frith
- human brain imaging studies. Part 2 Attention and perceptual integration: feature binding, attention and object perception, A. Treisman
- converging levels of analyses in the cognitive neuroscience of visual attention, J. Duncan
- crossmodal links in spatial attention, Driver & Spence. Part 3 Spatial representation and attention: place cells, navigational accuracy, and the human hippocampus, O'Keefe, Burgess, Donnett, & Maguire
- neural representation of objects in space - a dual coding account, Humphreys
- human cortical mechanisms of visual attention during orienting and search, Corbetta & Shulman. Part 4 Visual attention and action: neuropsychological studies of perception and visuomotor control, A.D. Milner. neuropsychological studies of perception and visuomotor control, Tipper, Howard & Houghton. Part 5 The control of attention: prefrontal cortex and the neural basis of executive functions, E.K. Miller
- task switching, Allport & Wylie
- positive and negative priming of task-set
- sustained attention deficits in time and space, Robertson & Manley
- interactions between perception and action systems - a model for selective action, R. Ward.
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